The Star newspaper has uncovered the murder of another gay man that could be linked to the four others that were recently reported.
The newspaper has, in the past few weeks, revealed a series of murders that suggest that gay men in the Johannesburg area are being targeted by a killer or killers, possibly even a serial killer.
Like the four previously known victims, Manolis Veloudos was, in April last year, found in his home in Greenside bound and murdered.
As in the other incidents, there was no sign of forced entry, indicating that Veloudos invited his attacker in. Also, as was the case with some of the other victims, he had an online dating profile.
One difference, however, was that Veloudos was not strangled but was bashed to death with his laptop. The Star reports that a suspect was charged but was released after his DNA did not match evidence from the scene of the crime.
The victim’s niece, Evita Veloudos, told the Star that CCTV footage of her uncle with an unknown man on the night of the murder was handed over to the police, but it was apparently lost by the investigating officers.
In the first of the murder cases, Jim Cathels was found murdered at his home in Berea in December 2010. His murder was followed by those of Oscar O’Hara (33), Siphiwe Selby Nhlapo (36) and most recently Barney van Heerden (39) last month.
All the men were killed in private residences. Gay men in Johannesburg have been warned to be wary of inviting strangers into their homes.
On Thursday, the organisers of Mr. Gay South Africa called on the hate crimes task team recently established by the Minister of Justice and the National Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the alleged “gay serial killer” murders in Gauteng.
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Pls keep us updated we to scared to go out
Scared to go out? You mean you now thinking twice before having a drug fuelled sex orgy with strangers in your house.
Exactly
Sounds like these rent boys or these maseurs for hire! Don’t trust these f?$&3rs!!
Gay men are easy targets for this kind of thing… hopefully this leads to some reform of their debaucherous ways but somehow I doubt it.
Gay men are easy targets. You would hope they would reform their debaucherous over something as serious as this ways but somehow I don’t think that’s ever gona happen
@Sam: Your sweepingly generalised and offensive statement must be challenged. You imply that all gay men are easy targets by virute of universally held low morals. My girl, you couldn’t be more ignorant if you tried. Many men, gay & straight alike, wi
The conclusions you come to are bizarre to say the least.
The same could be said for straight females who invite strangers into their home, or any person for that matter, but no the blame must always get put on the gays, Sam and Duckie go to hell, after reading your comments, I now wish you two were two the victims instead of these other men we have read about.
Maybe it’s time for gay men to grow a pair and treat themselves with some dignity and self respect. Stop this filthy behavior or maybe you will be next.
For every murder that is reported there are probably just as many that aren’t. The authorities are not gonna help you find this killer and he is going to kill more of you. Why? Because you’re such easy targets.
And the police are not taking the serial killer theory seriously – gosh how bizarre ?